Project: Brighton & Hove City Council
Purpose: To reduce childhood obesity
Funding: The authority spends about £500,000 a year on "tier two" services for children, adults and families
Background: While Brighton & Hove has lower than average rates of childhood obesity, that has not stopped the city council and partners working hard over the past five to six years to bring those rates down. Data from the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) has been central to these efforts, as has a whole-family approach, explains Lydie Lawrence, public health programme manager. "You can't just work with children, you have to work with whole families," she says. "Very often when children are overweight, you find other family members are overweight too."
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